ISLA SAN LUCAS, Puntarenas – From the twomoldy solitary confinement cells that tower over the dockat the entrance to the former penitentiary, to the...
San José Mayor Johnny Araya this weekrejected calls that he step down from his postuntil state prosecutors finish investigatingwhether he accepted illegal payments from...
THE black smoke that follows run-down semitrailers,recycled school buses and 15-year-old cars throughout SanJosé isn’t just stinky and bothersome; it is costly.Air pollution in...
• President AbelPacheco publiclydenied a story publishedin the daily LaNación that saidattendees of a ceremonyto celebrate thenew Catholic diocesesof Cartago receivedthe President with“displeasure” andignored...
HOCKEY left the ice and migrated from the northernclimes. It’s now a mainstay on a Costa Rican rink, where up and-coming candidates for international...
THOSE looking for the latest fashionsfrom Paris, London, Milan and Amsterdamneed look no farther than the western SanJosé suburb of Escazú. Cosmo Fashion,owned by...
YEARS ago,when computer translationprograms werestill in the earlystages, program developersfed into acomputer the phrase,“The spirit is willing,but the flesh is weak.”What emerged inRussian was...
ELIZABETH MacQueen’s work hasled her to Italy, Canada, Belgium, Greeceand France. But when she landed in CostaRica two years ago, the world-renownedsculptor intended to...